posted message: Audrey Watters: What Every Techie Should Know About Education. http://www.hackeducation.com/2012/03/17/what-every-techie-should-know-about-education/

posted message: My thoughts on how this course went, and why: http://third-bit.com/blog/archives/4456.html. I'd be grateful for your feedback (either here, or as comments on that blog post). Thank you all for taking part --- I hope we'll have a chance to work together again some time.

posted message: Reminder: our final online meeting is today (March 15) at 10:00 Eastern time on IRC.

posted message: Hi everyone, It looks like 10:00 am Eastern time on Thursday March 15 works best for our final online meeting. I'll look for you all on IRC then. Cheers, Greg

posted message: Catherynne Valente's article has me thinking about the motivating examples we choose when we teach programming: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/02/life-with-and-without-animated.html.

posted message: Reminder: please fill in the Doodle at http://www.doodle.com/z6cr3yvs5rt85tq3 so that we can arrange our final online meeting for this course. It will include a post-mortem discussion of what went right, what went wrong, and how we could do better next time.

posted message: I have created a Doodle so that we can find a time for our fourth and final online meetup. Please go to http://www.doodle.com/z6cr3yvs5rt85tq3 and let us know when you're available.

posted message: Nice (thoughtful) exploration of the results of the Auburn, Maine study using iPads to teach: http://multiplepathways.wordpress.com/2012/02/23/responding-to-a-critique-of-auburns-ipad-research-claims/

posted message: Via Leigh Ann Sudol, a paper on motivation and learning: "The Four Phase Model of Interest Development" http://www.unco.edu/cebs/psychology/kevinpugh/motivation_project/resources/hidi_renninger06.pdf Thanks! Greg

posted message: Hi everyone, It looks like 10-11 am Eastern time on Wednesday, February 22, is the best time for our next online chat --- let's meet in IRC as before. Look forward to seeing you all there, Greg

posted message: Would Stack Underflow work? http://software-carpentry.org/2012/02/stack-underflow/

posted message: Let's meet online next week to discuss our third task --- I've created a Doodle poll at http://www.doodle.com/cfytitdedgwc4vpe, so please let us know when you're available. Thanks, Greg

posted message: Many thanks to the people who took part in yesterday's online meeting. There was a lot of good discussion, and plenty of new ideas to chew on. I think the most important was how lucky we are: we can assume our learners are highly motivated and actually want to do the work, which isn't true of battery-farmed learners in traditional top-down classrooms. That may mean our models only work for a minority of people, but there are lots of people in that minority we can help. Based on those discussions, I've written up Task #3: people can work on personalized projects to bring to the group in a couple of weeks, or double back and look at what the "big ideas" are that they're trying to convey. We'll aim to have it done in a couple of weeks.

posted message: Reminder: we'll be meeting online in IRC at 11:00 today to discuss the first two tasks, and to set goals for the next few weeks. Look forward to seeing you all there.

posted message: A teen proposes an online community for teens who want to be developers: http://jdytrych.co.uk/2012/hackasaurus-community/

posted message: It looks like good old IRC is the easiest thing for our first meeting, so let's rendezvous on freenode at #p2pu-530-how-to-tea tomorrow at 11:00 Eastern time. If you haven't used IRC before, it's like any other chat system; if you click on the linke "#p2pu-530-how-to-tea" next to 'Chat' in the information area in the left sidebar of the course home page, it will launch an in-browser chat client, or you can use Chatzilla or any other standalone tool to join us. Look forward to speaking with you all tomorrow, Thanks, Greg

posted message: Reminder: we will be meeting online starting at 11:00 am (Eastern time) on Thursday, Feb 2. Please reply to this post with suggestions for venue: IRC? Skype chat (I doubt a conference call with two dozen people would work well)? A Google+ hangout? Something else? Vote early, vote often :-) Looking forward to meeting you all, Greg

posted message: Great discussion of what 21st Century learning can look like: http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/2011/12/anatomy-of-an-idea.html How much of this kind of thing do your learners do? How much do you expect or require them to do it? How does it vary by learner age?

posted message: The second part of this post (http://software-carpentry.org/2012/01/never-mind-the-content-what-about-the-format/), on what I'd like in a 21st Century replacement for PowerPoint, is probably not interesting to participants in this course, but I hope that the first part (which discusses what five different people want from instructional media) will be. Also, please try to wrap up your descriptions of your own prototypical learners soon, so that we can discuss them next week.

posted message: Interesting reality check from Mark Guzdial: http://computinged.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/online-cs-courses-what-does-it-mean-willing-to-put-in-the-effort/ What does it mean to say that students who are "willing to put in the effort" will succeed?